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Or 12333

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Or 12333
Title:
Letters and documents (mostly from Hagenau)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
59 folios (iii+59+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12333 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1710
End Date:
1846
Date Range:
1710-1846
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 12333

Letters and documents (mostly from Hagenau)

Contents

Summary of Contents: A collection of letters and documents mostly originating from the Jewish community of Hagenau in Alsace, dated between 1710 and 1842.

Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish

ff. 1v-59v
Title: אגרות, תעודות ושטרות בית דין מקהלת הגינויא ואליה
Title: Igrot, Teʿudot u-sheṭarot bet din mi-ḳehilat Hagenoy ṿe-eleha

Most of the documents concern marriage and divorce, but there are also communal decisions and reports.

Includes also an English business letter addressed to Mr. Kalish of Ipswich dated 1846 (ff. 8-9); notes on Genesis 1-2 (f. 12); a letter from Jacob(?) Arnheim to Abraham Cohen concerning the binding of Arnheim's books (f. 13); deliberations in Yiddish of the administrative committee of the Jewish congregation at Hagenau, dated 22 March 1840 a financial transaction involving Samuel Hilman, rabbi at Mannheim, dated 5509 (1748/9) (ff. 28-29).

Contents are to be described in more detail.

In relation to Hagenau, see also London, BL, Or 10755 with autograph reports of a delegate from Hagenau to the Sanhedrin of Paris.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 59 folios (iii+59+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 352 × 215 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Condition

Usage stains, folding lines, iron gall ink corrosion, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Size of leaves differs. Given dimensions are referring to the largest folios.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive and square scripts of the 18th-19th century; various hands.

Binding

Post-1600, yellow cloth binding. In flap case.

M. Gaster's label on spine is damaged.

History

Origin: 1710-1846 Various dates between 1710 and 1846. Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1223; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 17 December 1931.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12333 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Prager, Leonard and Brad Sabin Hill, "Yiddish manuscripts in the British Library"British Library Journal (1995): pp. 90-91.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL